October 5/6/7

October 5/6/7

Sat, Oct. 6 | 4:00 pm | 90 minutes

Terence Nance Talks with Jelani Cobb

“Random Acts of Flyness.”

Film, TV, and Theatre

Photograph by Jaimie Milner

Terence Nance is a composer, an artist, and an award-winning filmmaker. He directed, wrote, and acted in the movie “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” which won a Gotham Award in 2012, and directed the short film “Swimming in Your Skin Again.” He created the HBO series “Random Acts of Flyness,” which he also stars in, produces, writes, and directs, and which was just renewed for a second season. “A Different World,” Emily Nussbaum’s piece about the show, appeared in the August 27, 2018, issue of The New Yorker.

Jelani Cobb has contributed to The New Yorker and newyorker.com since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. His most recent book is “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” A professor at the Columbia Journalism School, he won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for opinion and analysis journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.